Woven carpet fabric



Patented Feb 28, I899. R. S. & H. CUOKSON.

WOVEN CARPET FABRIC.

(Application filed Mar. 21, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

RICHARD S. COOKSON AND HENRY OOOKSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

WOVEN CARPET FABRIC,

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 620,104, dated February 28, 1899.

Application filed March 21, 1898- Serial No. 674,566. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, RICHARD S. CooKsoN and HENRY OooKsoN, both citizens of the United States, residing at the city of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements in Woven Carpet Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention has relation to the production of a carpet fabric woven with a pile of differently dyed or colored chenille or similar material in sections or parts to produce the pattern or figure on both faces or sides of the fabric; and in such connection our invention relates to the structure and to the particular disposition of the light and heavy warpthreads and weft-threads of chenille or similar material and jute or the like in such fabric.

The principal objects of our invention are, first, to provide a comparatively cheap, durable, and acceptable woven carpet fabric having a pile of chenille differently colored or dyed in parts or sections to permit of the production of the desired pattern or color effects in the fabric for the making of mat-s, artsquares, and other similar floor-coverings having great variety as to pattern and color efiects therein, and, moreover, without material increase as to cost of production of the same, and, second, to provide a substantial or strong four-weft plane-woven carpet fabric having a pile of chenille or similar material on both faces of the same, the pile of chenille or similar material being dyed or colored in parts or sections to produce by the weaving of the same the required pattern or figure in either face of the fabric and the said produced fabric tied from face to back of the same and provided with interposed filler-wefts in separate sheds bound or separated by heavy warpthreads throughout the fabric.

Our invention, stated in general terms, consists of a woven carpet fabric, as hereinafter described and claimed.

The nature and characteristic features of our invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawing, forming part hereof, illustrating a diagrammatic sectional view of a fabric embodying the features of our invention, in which both faces have a pile of plain or different colored chenille or similar material to produce the desired pattern or figure in the completed fabric.

Referring to the drawing, A represents the fabric of our invention, in which the pilewefts a a of chenille or similar material on both faces are tied in separate sheds by light binder warp-threads 3 and 4, and interposed between the face and back weft-threads a and a are jute or similar weft-threads b and c in separate sheds throughout the fabric bound by heavy warp-threads 5, 6, and 7. The heavy warp-threads 6 and 7 are disposed above and below the same in separate sheds throughout the fabric.

In the fabric of our invention is afforded an opportunity for great variety as to pattern or figure efiects by simply providing a chenille suitably dyed or party-c0lored,which forms either face of the fabric.

It may be here remarked that it has not been deemed necessary to give a detailed description of the changes required in the operation of the loom to produce the fabric embod'ying the features of our invention; but it is to be understood that mechanism must be employed in the loom operating so as to be able to manipulate the warp and weft threads in required sequence to produce the fabric of our invention as described and illustrated for use as a mat, art-square, or other floor-covering and with such pattern or figure effects therein as required. Moreover, a resultant product is obtained which is solid and homogeneous throughoutthat is, without pockets-and strongly resembles an AXminster or moquette fabric.

The light and heavy warp-threads by the proper tie-up of the loom in the making of the fabric may be readily arranged, in instances of making mats and art-squares, so that the ends may be matted or formed into a suitable fringe to give a more or less ornamental finish thereto. Neither the operation nor result incident to such use of the ends of the said warpthreads has been illustrated, because such can and will be readily understood by a weaver without either illustration or further explanation as to the mode of accomplishing this result at the two ends of the article in the cases mentioned, for which our invention is especially applicable, because such articles as mats, art-squares, or the like can be produced effectively as to pattern or design with any desired color effects or pattern therein and in an economical manner.

Having thus described the nature and objects of'our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A four-weft plane carpet fabric,comprisin g a face and back plane of chenille or similar weft-threads and two intermediate planes of jute or similar weft-threads, the weft-p1anes of the fabric being separated by three planes our signatures in the presence of two sub- 25 scribing witnesses.

RICHARD S. OOOKSON. HENRY COOKSON.

WVitnesses:

THOMAS M. SMITH, RICHARD C. MAXWELL. 

